Ferocious Bite

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Ferocious Bite
Ability druid ferociousbite.png
  • Ferocious Bite
  • Level 7 druid ability
  • Melee range
  • 25 Energy
  • Instant
  • Requires Cat Form
  • Finishing move that causes Physical damage per combo point and consumes up to 25 additional Energy to increase damage by up to 100%.

    1 point : (29% of Attack Power) damage
    2 points: (58% of Attack Power) damage
    3 points: (87% of Attack Power) damage
    4 points: (116% of Attack Power) damage
    5 points: (145% of Attack Power) damage
Properties
Class Druid
School Physical
Cooldown None/Global Cooldown
Other information
Level learned 7
Improvements [Bestial Strength], [Bloodtalons], [Ferocious Wound], [Lion's Strength], [Rampant Ferocity], [Saber Jaws], [Sabertooth], [Taste for Blood], [Wildstalker's Power]

Ferocious Bite is a [Cat Form] druid finishing move that causes damage per combo point and consumes up to 25 additional energy to increase damage by up to 100%.

Tips and tactics

  • Using this ability when [Omen of Clarity] procs will negate the base 25 energy cost. However up to 25 energy (if available) will still be spent on the ability's additional effect.
  • [Rip] or [Rake] may produce more damage under most conditions, including high armor on the target.
  • In PvE, this is thus only advisable once you already have a [Rip] or [Rake], and a [Savage Roar] up.

Patch changes

  • TheWarWithin-Icon-Inline.png Hotfix (2024-09-17): Damage increased by 3%.
  • TheWarWithin-Icon-Inline.png Hotfix (2024-09-13): Fixed a bug preventing Ferocious Bite from damaging crowd-controlled targets.
  • TheWarWithin-Icon-Inline.png Patch 11.0.2 (2024-08-13): Damage is no longer reduced by 25% in PvP combat.
  • TheWarWithin-Icon-Inline.png Patch 11.0.0 (2024-07-23): Damage increased by 10%.
  • Dragonflight-Icon-Inline.png Hotfix (2023-12-05): Damage decreased by 20%. Not applied to PvP combat.
  • Dragonflight-Icon-Inline.png Hotfix (2023-11-14): Damage increased by 200%. Does not apply in PvP Combat.
  • Dragonflight-Icon-Inline.png Patch 10.1.5 (2023-07-11): Damage increased by 5%.
  • Dragonflight-Icon-Inline.png Patch 10.0.5 (2023-01-24): Damage reduced by 25% in PvP combat (was reduced by 20%).
  • Shadowlands-Icon-Inline.png Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now learned by all druids at level 7 (was Feral only at level 10).
  • BattleForAzeroth-Logo-Small.png Patch 8.1.0 (2018-12-11): No longer refreshes the duration of [Rip] if the target is below 25% health.
  • Legion-Logo-Small.png Patch 7.2.5 (2017-06-13): Ferocious Bite damage increased by 30%.
  • Legion-Logo-Small.png Patch 7.2.0 (2017-03-28): Feral Druids now deal 4% more damage with Ferocious Bite.
  • Legion-Logo-Small.png Hotfix (2017-02-16): Ferocious Bite works correctly if cast with less than 50 energy while Omen of Clarity is active.
  • Legion-Logo-Small.png Hotfix (2017-01-23): Increased the damage of Ferocious Bite by 8%.
  • Legion-Logo-Small.png Patch 7.1.0 (2016-10-25): Now available at level 10 (was 3).
  • Legion-Logo-Small.png Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Now available only to Feral. No longer has double critical strike chance against bleeding targets. Damage increased by 45%. Now learned at level 3 (was 6).
  • WoD-Logo-Small.png Hotfix (2015-03-04): Fixed an issue where Ferocious Bite may sometimes consume an incorrect amount of Energy when the ability misses.
  • WoD-Logo-Small.png Hotfix (2015-02-25): Fixed an issue where Ferocious Bite may consume more Energy than intended when the ability Multistrikes.
  • WoD-Logo-Small.png Patch 6.1.0 (2015-02-24): Damage increased by 5%.
  • WoD-Logo-Small.png Hotfix (2015-01-27): No longer loses damage when cast with a low amount of Energy while [Berserk] is active.
  • WoD-Logo-Small.png Hotfix (2014-10-17): Damage increased by 12%.
  • WoD-Logo-Small.png Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): Now has double the normal chance to critically strike against bleeding targets (instead of having an additional 25% chance to critically strike).
  • Mists-Logo-Small.png Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Now consumes 25 Energy for additional damage, down from 35. No longer heals when used. Will now also refresh Rip if the target has less than 25% health, and has an additional 25% chance to critically strike against bleeding target. Now learned at level 6 (was 8).
  • Cata-Logo-Small.png Patch 4.2.0 (2011-06-28): Damage has been increased by 15%. In addition, its base cost has been reduced to 25 energy and it can use up to 25 energy, for up to a 100% damage increase.
  • Cata-Logo-Small.png Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Ability reworked to increase damage done per combo point by a percentage instead of by a static amount. Now learned at level 8 (was 32).
  • Wrath-Logo-Small.png Patch 3.0.9 (2009-02-10): This ability now only uses up to 30 energy in addition to its base cost.
  • WoW Icon update.png Patch 1.12.0 (2006-08-22): Book of Ferocious Bite (Rank 5) now drops off The Beast in Blackrock Spire. In addition, Ferocious Bite now increases in potency with greater attack power.
  • WoW Icon update.png Patch 1.7.0 (2005-09-13): Damage per combo point has been increased. In addition, extra energy now converts to damage at a higher rate.
  • WoW Icon update.png Patch 1.3.0 (2005-03-07): Added.

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